🗺️ Worldview notebooks 🔭

Hunter’s waggishly weird wash of whimsical worldviews

Education | Fun facts | Humans | Mental health | Personal improvement | Philosophy | Physical health | Politics | Psychology | Religion | STEM

Part 0: Introduction

Notes

• This document is a compilation of resources that formed, informed, or changed my worldview in some meaningful way
• Divided into 3 sections
  • Understanding of Self
  • Understanding the World
  • Adding some Richness
• Reading duration estimates assume 250 words per minute (discussion) (self-test)
  • echo "print($(pbpaste | wc -w) / 250)" | python3 generate reading duration estimate from text copied to clipboard
• Use archive.org to circumevent most article paywalls

Discussion starters

• Why do you get up in the morning?
• How do you decide to take some actions, and not take others?
• Why do we seem to expect humans to act according to an ethical code? Is that a reasonable expectation?
• Do humans have an intrinsic value? Why? Is that value equal across people?
• How do you decide whether something is true? What’s the relationship between what you yourself know vs. what you trust others to verify and pass on to you?

Part 1: Understanding of Self

Mental health

Nature of depression

• [video 7m] 7 ways to maximize misery (CGP Grey)
• [book] How to be miserable: 40 strategies you already use by Randy J. Paterson
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• [article 15m] Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
• [video 3m] Depression: is lifting weights the answer?
• [video 4m] Antidepressants (Jordan Peterson)

Influence of technology

• [video 5m] Digital hygiene: how we might’ve fucked our attention spans
• [video 11m] The benefit of a mental breakdown
• [article 6m] News is bad for you, and giving up reading it will make you happier
• [video 47m] Antifragility, anxiety, and social media (Jonathan Haidt, Doctor Mike)
  • [article 4m] Smartphone use and mental health
  • [article 18m] Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can’t you put it down?
• [film] Ingrid Goes West

Self-compassion

• [article 10m] Why self-compassion works better than self-esteem
• [article 6m] To recover from failure, try some self-compassion
• [wikipedia 15m] Self-compassion

Mindfulness and gratitude

• [video 10m] An antidote to dissatisfaction
  • [article 9m] Gratitude meditation: a simple but powerful happiness intervention
• [article 12m] What are the benefits of mindfulness
• [resource] Headspace: meditation made simple

Stoicism

• [wikipedia 3m] Amor fati
• [book] Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Personal improvement

Mindset

• [article 2m] Being a noob (Paul Graham)
• [video 12m] How to stop rotting away at home (Jordan Peterson)
  • [video 9m] You’re sad because you’re bored (Andrew Huberman)
  • [video 7m] Start by doing it badly (Jordan Peterson)
  • [video 6m] What to do if I don’t have any goals? (Jordan Peterson)
  • [video 6m] You need a routine (Jordan Peterson)
  • [video 9m] If you are feeling lazy and unmotivated, listen to this (Andrew Huberman)
  • [video 13m] If you hate Jordan Peterson, watch this video, it will change your mind
• [article 4m] What having a growth mindset actually means
  • [video 6m] These compliments make you unsuccessful (Andrew Huberman)
  • [video 10m] The power of believing that you can improve
  • [article 8m] Want to become an expert at something? Try deliberate practice
  • [article 5m] Incremental improvement
  • [wikipedia 20m] Locus of control
  • [video 5m] Fix yourself (Jordan Peterson)
• [comic] Get the stick
• [article 12m] Why am I so lazy?

Habits

• [wikipedia 12m] Reinforcement schedules: intermittent reinforcement schedules
• [article 8m] How to fall asleep in 2 minutes or less
• [article 9m] Reading in the age of constant distraction
• [video 136m] Controlling your dopamine for motivation, focus & satisfaction (Andrew Huberman)
• [book] The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• [book] 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

Goals

• [wikipedia 3m] SMART criteria
• [article 6m] Write your own eulogy
• [video 11m] Jim’s 1993 ESPY speech
• [article 5m] How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis
• [discussion] After working with terminally ill cancer patients, here’s a list of what they say you should appreciate while you’re alive

Relationships

• [video 3m] Brené Brown on empathy
• [video 11m] The best relationship advice ever (Jordan Peterson)
• [video 3m] You need a partner who is a challenge (Jordan Peterson)
• [article 5m] Nobody tells you how long a marriage is
• [article 3m] The 10 minute routine that transformed my relationship
• [video 7m] 3 easy ways to start a conversation with anyone
• [video 4m] Why not just be child-free and happy? (Jordan Peterson)
• [video 5m] Increasing positive reinforcement (Jordan Peterson)

Career

• [article 2m] What doesn’t seem like work? (Paul Graham)
• [video 5m] Don’t follow your passion
• [video 10m] 7 things I wish I knew in my 20s
• [article 6m] What happens when your career becomes your whole identity
• [article 5m] The case for a 4-day workweek

Physical health

General

• [article 10m] Longevity FAQ: a beginner’s guide to longevity research
• [article 2m] How exercise in old age prevents the immune system from declining
• [article 14m] Obesity (Our World in Data)
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Diet

• [reference 22m] Harvard healthy eating pyramid
• [videos] Salt: why low sodium guidelines aren’t helping
• [article 6m] Fiber is good for you, now scientists may know why
• [reference 7m] Vitamin D fact sheet for consumers

Alcohol

• [video 15m] On alcohol (Jordan Peterson)
• [video 7m] How alcohol actually increases stress levels, rather than relaxing you (Andrew Huberman)
  • [video 121m] What alcohol does to your body, brain & health (Andrew Huberman)

Sugar

• [video 14m] Why sugar is as bad as alcohol
• [article 2m] Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?
• [video 15m] How to quit sugar and unhealthy habits
• [wikipedia 3m] Sugar: health effects

Everyday habits

• [video 7m] How to not get sick
• [video 7m] Proven sleep tips
• [article 2m] Is hitting snooze bad for your health?
• [article 13m] Is sunscreen the new margarine?
• [article 6m] The “Indoor Generation” and the health risks of spending more time inside

Posture

• [article 9m] To fix that pain in your back, you might have to change the way you sit
• [article 5m] Lost art of bending over: how other cultures spare their spines
• [article 7m] The forgotten art of squatting is a revelation for bodies ruined by sitting

Religion

• [lectures] The psychological significance of the Biblical stories (Jordan Peterson)
• [video 6m] The problem with atheism (Jordan Peterson)
• [video 9m] Why be Catholic and not just Christian?
• [book] Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• [resource] Biblical commentary (Bible Hub)

Part 2: Understanding the World

Humans

General

• [resource] Our World in Data
• [article 18m] The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it (Our World in Data)
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History

• [lectures] Crash Course World History
• [video 19m] The history of the world: every year
• [video 17m] Timeline of world history: major time periods & ages
• [wikipedia 46m] History of the world

Population

• [article 7m] The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing (Our World in Data)
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• [infographic] World population density
• [video 6m] Human population through time
• [video 2m] World GDP through time
• [wikipedia 12m] World population estimates
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• [infographic] Flight tracker

Sociology

• [wikipedia 5m] Friendship paradox
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• [wikipedia 6m] Anomie
  • [video 8m] That time a guy tried to build a utopia for mice and it all went to hell
• [article 4m] The surprising effects of loneliness on health
  • [article 5m] Who do we spend time with across our lifetime? (Our World in Data)
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  • [article 4m] Americans are a lonely lot, and young people bear the heaviest burden
  • [article 20m] The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness
  • [article 6m] Is there a loneliness epidemic? (Our World in Data)
  • [article 3m] A solution for loneliness
• [discussion] Alcohol as a technology to check the trustworthiness of others
• [article 8m] How advertisers convinced Americans they smelled bad

Religion

• [wikipedia 7m] Major religious groups
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• [article 8m] The global religious landscape (Pew Research)
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• [article 19m] The future of world religions: population growth projections, 2010-2050 (Pew Research)
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• [infographics] Frequency of prayer (Pew Research)
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• [wikipedia 10m] Desecularization
• [wikipedia 20m] State religion: current state recognized religions

Connectivity

• [article 2m] Internet access: reducing global poverty
• [article 13m] Internet (Our World in Data)
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• [article 4m] What does 1GB of mobile data cost in every country?
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Psychology

General

• [lectures] Personality and its transformations (Jordan Peterson)
• [wikipedia 42m] Big Five personality traits
• [video 5m] You are two (CGP Grey)
  • [wikipedia 13m] Bicameral mentality
  • [wikipedia 3m] Third man factor
  • [wikipedia 6m] Left-brain interpreter

Self-understanding

• [wikipedia 10m] Meta-emotion
  • [wikipedia 1m] Higher-order volition
  • [wikipedia 4m] Akrasia
• [article 7m] The knowns and unknowns framework
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• [wikipedia 2m] Four stages of competence
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• [wikipedia 23m] Flow
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• [wikipedia 11m] Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
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• [wikipedia 30m] Sex differences in psychology
  • [wikipedia 9m] Tend and befriend

Disorder and coping

• [wikipedia 10m] Defense mechanism
  • [wikipedia 5m] Psychological projection
  • [wikipedia 2m] Compartmentalization
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• [wikipedia 30m] Cognitive dissonance
  • [wikipedia 20m] Illusory superiority
  • [wikipedia 10m] Dunning–Kruger effect
  • [wikipedia 15m] Choice-supportive bias
  • [wikipedia 9m] Big-fish–little-pond effect
• [discussion] The call of the void
• [wikipedia 24m] Parasocial interaction
• [documentary] Behind the Curve
  • [documentary] Accidental Courtesy
  • [documentary] The Most Hated Family in America

Philosophy

General

• [podcast] Philosophize This
• [resource] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Logic

• [wikipedia 18m] Falsifiability
• [wikipedia 14m] Liar paradox
• [wikipedia 32m] Philosophy of mathematics
  • [wikipedia 12m] Russell’s paradox
  • [wikipedia 20m] Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
  • [wikipedia 11m] Continuum hypothesis

Epistemology

• [wikipedia 4m] I know that I know nothing
• [wikipedia 6m] Münchhausen trilemma
  • [wikipedia 9m] Regress argument
  • [wikipedia 9m] Turtles all the way down
• [article 61m] The analytic/synthetic distinction
  • [wikipedia 4m] Logical truth
• [wikipedia 26m] Philosophical skepticism
• [wikipedia 14m] Solipsism
  • [wikipedia 7m] Brain in a vat
• [article 42m] Pragmatism
• [wikipedia 19m] Reality

Ethics

• [wikipedia 5m] Moral skepticism
• [article 32m] Egoism
• [article 33m] Utilitarianism

Metaphysics

• [article 8m] Free will is as real as baseball
  • [wikipedia 4m] Compatibilism

Politics

General

• [article 3m] Keep your identity small (Paul Graham)
• [lectures] Crash Course US History
• [lectures] Power and Politics in Today’s World (Ian Shapiro)
• [lectures] The Moral Foundations of Politics (Ian Shapiro)
• [article 19m] Trust (Our World in Data)
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Ethics

• [wikipedia 9m] Tone at the top
• [wikipedia 40m] Unethical human experimentation in the United States
  • [wikipedia 24m] MKUltra
  • [wikipedia 21m] Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  • [wikipedia 18m] Compulsory sterilization: United States
• [wikipedia 35m] United States war crimes
  • [wikipedia 43m] Mỹ Lai massacre
• [wikipedia 3m] Population transfer: United States
  • [wikipedia 36m] Trail of Tears
  • [wikipedia 80m] Internment of Japanese Americans

Rights

• [wikipedia 10m] Value of life
• [wikipedia 5m] Paternalism
• [article 9m] Let me help you speed-run the content moderation learning curve
• [article 4m] Let the other 95% of great programmers in (Paul Graham)
• [discussion] Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”
• [video 55m] Genders, rights and freedom of speech (Jordan Peterson)
• [video 128m] Free speech, psychology, gender pronouns (Jordan Peterson)

Economy

• [article 40m] Economic growth (Our World in Data)
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• [article 34m] Money in the modern economy: an introduction
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• [article 46m] Money creation in the modern economy
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• [wikipedia 25m] Household income in the United States
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• [wikipedia 40m] National debt of the United States
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• [wikipedia 19m] Developed country
  • [article 6m] Least developed countries: current LDCs
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Military

• [wikipedia 18m] Power projection
• [wikipedia 7m] List of countries by military expenditures
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Race

• [infographic] Race and ethnicity in the US by dot density
  • [wikipedia 4m] Schelling’s model of segregation (also: interactive simulation)
• [wikipedia 44m] Abraham Lincoln and slavery
  • [wikipedia 37m] Emancipation Proclamation
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• [wikipedia 51m] George Washington and slavery
• [wikipedia 24m] African-American family structure
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Gender

• [wikipedia 11m] Sex differences in humans
• [article 51m] Fertility rate (Our World in Data)
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• [wikipedia 35m] Gender pay gap
  • [wikipedia 31m] Gender pay gap in the United States
• [article 5m] A stunning chart shows the true cause of the gender wage gap
  • [article 13m] The truth about the gender wage gap
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• [article 15m] Is it really just sexism? An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
  • [video 6m] Gender temperament data is not a right-wing conspiracy (Jordan Peterson)
  • [video 30m] Gender pay gap, campus protests, and postmodernism (Jordan Peterson)

Media bias

• [video 7m] This video will make you angry (CGP Grey)
• [article 3m] Dihydrogen monoxide - the truth
  • [wikipedia 6m] Dihydrogen monoxide parody
• [video 19m] This is how easy it is to lie with statistics
• [wikipedia 40m] Media bias in the United States
• [article 30m] Causes of death (Our World in Data)
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Climate

• [infographic] Earth temperature timeline
• [infographic] Carbon dioxide concentration on Earth’s surface
• [video 7m] Casually Explained: The Carbon Scale
• [videos] Climate change explained, and the myths debunked
  • [article 9m] Why apocalyptic claims about climate change are wrong
• [wikipedia 4m] Global temperature record
  • [wikipedia 16m] Climate change in the arctic
  • [wikipedia 17m] Global cooling
• [article 12m] The world’s energy problem (Our World in Data)
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• [infographic] World’s energy consumption by source (Our World in Data)
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Campaign finance

• [paper 42m] Testing theories of American politics: elites, interest groups, and average citizens
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• [wikipedia 8m] Political action committee
• [wikipedia 23m] Campaign finance in the United States
• [wikipedia 47m] Citizens United v. FEC
• [wikipedia 56m] Lobbying in the United States

Abortion

• [wikipedia 27m] Abortion debate
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• [wikipedia 15m] Planned Parenthood v. Casey
• [wikipedia 40m] Abortion in the United States
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Education

General

• [infographic] How do we learn?
• [wikipedia 8m] Bloom’s taxonomy
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• [article 3m] The Feynman technique: the best way to learn anything
• [article 2m] The XY Problem

Parenting

• [article 5m] Let children get bored again
• [article 9m] No spanking, no time-out, no problems
• [article 6m] Boundaries, routines and early bedtimes: 13 habits that raise well-adjusted kids

STEM

General

• [videos] Domain maps (science, engineering, mathematics, etc.)

Science

• [wikipedia 9m] Psychological adaptation
• [wikipedia 15m] Group selection
• [wikipedia 9m] Omphalos hypothesis
• [wikipedia 4m] Cortical homunculus

Science: astronomy

• [video 3m] Which planet is the closest? (CGP Grey)
• [infographic] The scale of the universe
  • [infographic] If the moon were only 1 pixel
• [video 11m] Is Earth actually flat?
• [video 21m] The new science of moon formation
• [wikipedia 33m] Fermi paradox

Technology

• [article 4m] The average age of a successful startup founder is 45
• [article 7m] Technological change (Our World in Data)
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Engineering

• [wikipedia 12m] Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States)

Mathematics

• [video 4m] Correlation can imply causation
• [video 4m] Immovable object vs. unstoppable force, which wins?
• [wikipedia 10m] Erdős number
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Part 3: Adding some Richness

Fun facts

Language

• [wikipedia 4m] Semantic primitives
• [wikipedia 2m] Unpaired word
• [wikipedia 3m] Semantic satiation
• [wikipedia 5m] Minced oath
• [wikipedia 5m] Auto-antonym
• [wikipedia 2m] RAS syndrome
• [wikipedia 9m] Generic trademark
• [article 2m] The difference between an analogy and a metaphor

Culture

• [video 11m] The top trending Google searches in every US state throughout the 2010s
• [wikipedia 4m] Surreal humour

Politics

• [wikipedia 7m] Lead-crime hypothesis
• [wikipedia 26m] Comstock laws
• [wikipedia 6m] Pyrrhic victory
• [wikipedia 1m] School zone: effectiveness

Humans

• [wikipedia 13m] Mass psychogenic illness
  • [wikipedia 9m] Dancing mania
  • [wikipedia 10m] Havana syndrome
  • [wikipedia 2m] Tanganyika laughter epidemic
  • [wikipedia 11m] List of mass hysteria cases
  • [video 7m] This video will hurt (CGP Grey)
• [wikipedia 5m] Tetris effect
• [wikipedia 6m] Cotard delusion
• [wikipedia 8m] Cargo cult
• [wikipedia 1m] Lactose intolerance: epidemiology
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• [article 17m] The atomic bomb considered as Hungarian high school science fair project
• [wikipedia 7m] Commonplace book
• [article 6m] Why do we sleep under blankets, even on the hottest nights?

Nature

• [wikipedia 7m] Moon illusion
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• [wikipedia 4m] Rain of animals

Sports

• [video 20m] NBA illegal defense
  • [article 7m] Illegal defense and how it shapes the NBA

Aphorisms

• [wikipedia 2m] Hanlon’s razor
• [wikidedia 4m] Law of triviality
• [wikipedia 8m] Matthew effect

Misconceptions

• [article 3m] Is “natural flavor” healthier than “artificial flavor”?
• [article 8m] The hygiene hypothesis: how being too clean might be making us sick
• [wikipedia 4m] Stage hypnosis: role of deception
• [wikipedia 5m] Polygraph: effectiveness
• [wikipedia 60m] List of common misconceptions

Wikipedia

• [wikipedia 1m] Wikipedia:Getting to philosophy
• [wikipedia 138m] Wikipedia:Unusual articles
• [wikipedia 156m] Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars

Miscellanea

• [article 7m] Plans you’re not supposed to talk about
• [article 5m] Maker’s schedule, manager’s schedule
• [article 7m] The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
• [game] Wikipedia Speedruns
• [game] Genetic Cars
• [videos] Search random, home-recorded videos on YouTube with img_\d\d\d\d